Posted by Willful on July 18, 2013, at 10:20:19
In reply to Re: anxiety about Babble and me » Dr. Bob, posted by SLS on July 18, 2013, at 3:21:16
What strikes me more and more is how much Bob and Lou are fundamentally alike.
Ive always thought that Lou was a person whose behavior could be explained as the symptoms of a disease of persecution, and that he therefore wasn't entirely accountable for his actions. I now have a somewhat different view, and hold him more and more responsible, despite his disease. But his actions are notable for being completely inflexible, unyielding and guided by some sort of lodestar of complete belief in his own rightness and excellence.
And I see Bob as quite the same. He has always, in every "model" of Babble, shown himself to be inflexible, unyielding and deaf to any and all entreaties , and proofs that his system is at best having detrimental effects, causing pain, and creating havoc among the people who are this place. No matter who has put in front of his evidence of the unfairness, harmfulness, and disorganization sown by his ideas, he has shown himself to be an unmoved mover-- one who hears, feels and sees nothing. And the place and the people suffer as a result.
It strikes me as odd that Bob does not offer each model of babble as an experiment, an untested answer to the question of how to form a republic on the internet, where people will be indeed more supportive, and that will be more of a refuge, than their lives are at any moment. And instead of gathering evidence as to the curative powers of his model-- its being in fact a refuge, rather than in Bob's head only, he hoves to his course through hxxx and high water-- and Babble becomes an emptier and less vital place in his wake.
Why he has suddenly risen from the dead to shepherd us once again, is beyond me. Why and how the algorithm changes and then becomes yet again unbending, is beyond me. And why frankly, in this incarnation, Bob prefers again to decimate the board, why he so appreciates Lou's company--is also beyond me.
But that he does is undeniable.
Emsam.
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